In what many consider to be a backlash against the recent “coup d’etat” sponsored by the far-right-wing Grand National Party, in which President Roh Moo Hyun was impeached for minor electioneering violations, South Korean voters handed a stunning victory to Roh’s Uri Party... 
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Apr 24, 2004
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HAVANA – Cuban law now protects mothers and fathers who want to share child-rearing after the breast-feeding period, without having to worry about irate bosses.
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Two Indian women have won a prestigious environmental prize for their battle on behalf of the survivors of the “world’s worst industrial disaster” – the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.
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Guam: Indigenous people protest military build-up / South Africa: Vote shows growing unity / Haiti: Death squads tighten their grip / Nepal: Protests for democracy continue / Venezuela: Threats grow on border
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LOS ANGELES – With a contract that expired April 15, about 4,000 Los Angeles-area hotel workers are gearing up for a struggle focusing on health care, wages and working conditions.
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A big untold story in the emerging economic “recovery” is the precarious position of many state budgets.
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An old friend of mine once said in regard to workers’ compensation reform, “When you hear the word reform, reach for your wallet.”
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DALLAS – Halliburton has a big office building in Carrollton, Texas, just outside the Dallas City limits. Forty to 50 protesters gathered there on April 15 to show their outrage with corporate profiteering at the expense of the Iraqi people....
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WASHINGTON – “Health care in the U.S. is racist, sexist and discriminates against the poor.”
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The labor, African American, Latino, women’s, environmental, peace and other people’s movements are engaged in a massive campaign to turn our country around in this election year.
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